Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Advisory Board Members (Country Coordinators) Often Used Abbreviations and Symbols Used in the Lists of Sources Maps Introduction Subjects per Country The Entries Fatma Aliye Serpil Çakir Countess Apponyi Susan Zimmermann and Claudia Papp Praskov'ia Arian Rochelle Ruthchild Inessa-Yelizaveta Armand Natalia Pushkareva Aspazija Irina Novikova Ksenija Atanasijevic Iva Nenic Ingeborg Bachmann Caitríona Leahy Maria Baiulescu, Tanya Dunlap Jelica Belovic-Bernadzikowska Jelica Zdero Hermin Beniczky (Mrs Pál Veres) Anna Loutfi Johanna Bischitz Julia Richers Vela Blagoeva Krassimira Daskalova Kostadina Bojadjieva Nasteva-Rusinska Vera Veskovic-Vangeli Felicia Bortkeviciene Virginija Jureniene Calypso Botez Maria Bucur Justyna Budzinska-Tylicka Katarzyna Sierakowska Kazimiera Bujwidowa Dobrochna Kalwa Princess Alexandrina Cantacuzino Roxana Cheschebec Mariia Chekhova Rochelle Ruthchild Shaqe Coba Zenepe Dibra Zofia Daszynska-Golinska Grzegorz Krzywiec Draga Dejanovic (Dejanovich) Ivana Pantelic Suat Dervis Fatmagül Berktay Blaženka Despot Gordana Bosanac Elena Djionat Maria Bucur Halide Edib-Adivar Ayse Durakbasa Anna Engelgardt Igor' Shkol'nikov Regina Ezera Sandra Meshkova Auguste Fickert Hanna Hacker Anna Filosofova Marianna Muravyeva Esther Frumkin Rochelle Ruthchild Magdalena Galdikiene Indre Karciauskaite Mariska Gárdos Susan Zimmermann Sarolta Geocze Anna Loutfi Elena Gjika (Dora d'Istria) Zenepe Dibra Vilma Glücklich Susan Zimmermann Hana Gregorová Etela Farkašová Liubov Gurevich Rochelle Ruthchild Marianne Hainisch Birgitta Bader-Zaar Milada Horáková Dana Musilova Dimitrana Ivanova Krassimira Daskalova Dragojla Jarnevic Sandra Prlenda Milena Jesenská Alena Wagnerová Biljana Jovanovic Jasmina Lukic Marija Juric-Zagorka Slavica Jakobovic Fribec Elise Käer-Kingisepp Sirje Tamul Ivande Kaija Sandra Meshkova Anna Kal'manovich Rochelle Ruthchild Klara Kalnina Irina Novikova Emilia Kánya Éva Bicskei Teréz Karacs Éva Bicskei Elissaveta Karamichailova Georgeta Nazarska Lyuben Karavelov Georgeta Nazarska Ekaterina Karavelova Reneta Roshkeva Anna Karima Krassimira Daskalova Stoja Kašikovic Jelica Zdero Natalia Kobrynska Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak Olha Kobylianska Teresa Polowy Alexandra Kollontai Natalia Gafizova Kina Konova Reneta Roshkeva and Krassimira Daskalova Eliška Krásnohorská Libuše Heczková Karoline Kronvalde Irina Novikova Nadezhda Krupskaia Norma Noonan Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit Grzegorz Krzywiec Ekaterina Kuskova Barbara Norton Zofka Kveder Katja Mihurko Poniz Käthe Leichter Gabriella Hauch Draga Ljocic (Ljotchich)- Miloševic Ivana Pantelic Julia Malinova Krassimira Daskalova Veselinka Malinska Vera Veskovic-Vangeli Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová Jana Cviková Charlotta Garrigue Masaryková Anna Nedvedová Ona Mašiotiene Indre Karciauskaite Vera Matejczuk Aleh Hardzienka Rosa Mayreder Edith Leisch-Prost Teodora Meczkowska Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza Elena Meissner Maria Bucur Eugénia Meller Claudia Papp and Susan Zimmermann Ulviye Mevlan-Civelek Serpil Çakir Adela Milcinovic Slavica Jakobovic Fribec Zinaida Mirovich Rochelle Ruthchild Zofia Moraczewska Joanna Dufrat Iza Moszczenska Magdalena Gawin Nezihe Muhittin Serpil Çakir Sofia Nadejde Stefania Mihailescu Ella Negruzzi Maria Bucur Božena Nemková Jirina Šmejkalová Milica Ninkovic (Ninkovich) Ivana Pantelic Teréza Nováková Libuše Heczková Eliza Orzeszkowa Iwona Wisniewska Haim Estreya Ovadya Vera Veskovic-Vangeli Nurser Öztunali Sevgi Uçan Çubukçu Pavlina Pajk Marta Verginellata Serafima Panteleeva Natalia Tikhonov Žarana Papic Vanda Perovic Callirhoe Parren Angelika Psarra and Eleni Fournaraki Alaiza Pashkevich Elena Gapova Solom'iya Pavl'ychko Viktoriya M. Topalova Olena Pchilka Natalia Monakhova Kata Pejnovic Maja Brkljacic Karoline Perin-Gradenstein Gabriella Hauch Gabriele Petkevicaite Rima Praspaliauskiene Berta Pipina Elizabete Picukane Františka ....

About the Author

Dr. Krassimira Daskalova is Associate Professor of Modern Cultural History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. She is President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.

Dr. Francisca de Haan is Professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. She is Vice-President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.

Anna Loutfi is a doctoral candidate in the comparative history of Central, South Eastern and Eastern Europe at the Central European University, Budapest. 

Reviews

"The excellent team of authors represents two generations of post-1989 women’s historians in CESEE, many of whom published path-breaking research in their respective countries. The main goal of this dictionary is to offer reliable information on the history of women’s movements and feminism in CESEE. The editors’ aim is to provide comparative materials for students and researchers looking at the history of feminism and the women’s movement from a transnational perspective. What unifies this project, is its political aim: to provide a “historical support” for contemporary feminism in the region by presenting it as a historical continuation of once interrupted indigenous women’s movements, rather than as simply a post-1989 Western ideological import. Thus, the project responds to the very real problem of the deepening and institutionalizing of gender inequality in the countries of the region (mostly post-communist ones)."
*Ab Imperio*

"This useful reference covers the former territories of the AustroHungarian empire and the European countries of the Ottoman and Soviet empires.... This is an excellent introduction for English speakers. It could also be a useful resource for specialists in the field since most of the bibliographies include references to archival resources: the sources are nearly all foreign. I have also discovered that a large number of sources are not cataloged in OCLC (WorldCat) by any institution: if this means these resources are not in the United States, then bibliographers have a good source for trying to acquire feminist materials from this area of the world. In addition to academic and research libraries, I recommend this book for high school and public libraries for women seeking information on feminists from countries of their origin."
*Feminist Collection*

"Anyone interested in women’s movements and feminism in Europe will find a wealth of useful information here – much of it otherwise inaccessible in the English language. The work of synthesising and analysing women’s and feminist movements in most of the countries of central, eastern and south eastern Europe still lies ahead. This volume provides an important start, and is a very welcome reference book."
*Gender & History*

"The Dictionary, which grew out of a project to create a calendar with 'biographical portraits of feminists from Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe,' has stong inspirational value and a human interest angle that attend this genre. Along with the original research, it should provide a strong basis for further scholarly investigation into this fascinating topic."
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